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Emil Lawrence MBA
To: Lawrence2011/12Campaign or Lawrence2011/12Campaign
Wells Fargo Bank PO Box 281287
3134 California Street San Francisco, CA 94128
San Francisco, CA 94118
c/o Susan Ryan
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Sunday, September 25, 2011
RESUME OF EMIL LAWRENCE GOING BACK TO 1975
Resume
Mr. Emil Lawrence
660 Westfield Road
Unit 281 - 287
San Francisco, CA 94128
415-513-7705 PCS Mobile
Objective: 2011
Position: SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR 2011
Work History: 1/26/ 04--11/23/06
Data Base Specialist/Accountant: US Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD). Produced Word documents, Excel accounting sheets and Access data mining projects using PowerPoint displays for the Regional Director. (Director for Region IX appointed by the President of the USA.) Worked with local HUD Web Designer. Part-time non-permanent position, funded by non-profits through the Dept of Commerce DOC.
Work History: 6/6/96-11/4/2001---9/5/1996-11/24/2004
Auditor/Journalist/Taxi Driver: Arthur Anderson /Hearst Corporation: Auditor, journalist, accountant, investigator, columnist, courier, taxi driver & security officer. Produced magazine/newspaper stories as a columnist & journalist while employed in multiple occupations. While employed by the Hearst Corporation worked 20-30 hours a week as an accountant & auditor- per diem for A. Anderson through 9/11/2001.
Work History: 11/20/1985-6/6/1996
Chief Financial Officer/General Partner CFO: Butler, Savin & Lawrence, LLP, SF CA, affiliated with ING Bank, Chicago, Ill. Derivatives & Securities Clearing, Strategist, Market Analyst & Compliance Officer for hedge fund portfolio services firm registered with the SEC, NFA & the CFTC. Analyzed price targets & traded in T- bonds, T-bills, Eurodollars, Eurobonds, currencies, options, futures, derivatives, securities, gold, silver & other precious metals bullion. Firm closed due to management problems associated with extensive capital requirements. Many clients associated with the Commercial Bank of San Francisco. Monitored Anti-Money Laundering Act (AML).
Work History: 3/3/1983-11/20/1985
Financial Advisor: Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Account Executive, Registered Investment Advisor RIA in securities, derivatives, futures & investment banking products. Marketed investments in bonds, securities, T-bills, precious metals, tax products, annuities, futures, derivatives to public funds and individuals. Manager: Henry Auwinger. Dean Witter Reynolds merged with Morgan Stanley. http://www.morganstanley.com/ Writer/columnist Airline Executive magazine on Crude Oil/gasoline, heating oil/ as hedges for airline fuels such as JP-5
Real Estate, Law, M&A and Tax Education, Licenses and Present Training: 2010
D. R.E. California Department of Real Estate, “Real Estate Agent’s Exam” 2007
C.T.E.C. California Tax Education Council, “Certified California Tax Preparer Bond” 2009
I.R.S. Fed Registration and Certification for Preparing Taxes in this USA 2010
Updated Skills, Certifications & Continuing Education: 2004-2013
C.C.S.F. City College San Francisco, San Francisco CA, Certificate “Paralegal” 2013
C. C.S.F. City College San Francisco, San Francisco CA, Certificate, "Business Office Technology” 2011
C.C.S.F. City College San Francisco, San Francisco CA, Certificate, “California Real Estate” 2006
C.C.S.F. City College San Francisco, San Francisco CA, Certificate "Micro Computerized Accounting” 2004
(Certificates approx 30 college semester units: “Pocket Master's Degrees”)
Federal Education, Training & Licensing: 1982-1994
N.F.A. / C.F.T.C. (Commodity Trading Advisor) CTA, License--1992-1994
S.E.C. / N.A.S.D. /N.F.A. Securities Exchange Commission, Federal Exam & License, Blue Sky--1984
S.E.C. / N.A.S.D. Securities Exchange Commission, Federal Exam & License, Series VII--1983
N.F.A. National Futures Association, Federal Exam & License, Series III--1982
General Academic Education: 1975-1979
S. F.S.U. San Francisco State University, San Francisco CA, Business Administration-MA-1978
S. F.S.U. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, Philosophy-Corporate Finance-BA-1977
C. C.S.F. City College San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, Finance-Business-AA- 1974
MAYORAL STATEMENT FOR 2011
Emil Lawrence for Mayor
Mayor’s Statement
I am running for San Francisco Mayor because City government is no longer accountable. As a resident for 41 years, I have determined that local government needs an adjustment. Our present leaders have lost touch with the residents they serve.
As a US Navy veteran, I have two daughters that were born and raised here. As a veteran my administration will reach out to those that have served. And, I will make City government transparent.
As Mayor, you will know that I have lived and worked in the City since 1970. And, I did not come into town from Sacramento or Greenbrae, last year. Also, unlike others, I am not connected to the political machine that steam rolled into town with the Interim crew.
As Mayor, I will eliminate 5000 outrageously paid posts and replace them with others. I will, then, hire seniors, veterans, high school and college students, as well as handicapped people at ‘reasonable’ salaries. I will put “City Voters” to work. City voters will know, “I am not like our present crew, but someone just like all of you.”
With this statement, I ask for your vote.
Sincerely,
Emil Lawrence MBA
Flyer #7
SAN FRANCISCO BICYCLE COALITION QUESTIONNAIRE AUG 17, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO BICYCLE COALITIONNovember 2011 Mayoral Candidate QuestionnaireDownload a digital version of this document at www.sfbike.org/2011candidate * Please return your answers to this questionnaire via email no later than Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 4:00pm. * The SF Bicycle Coalition will only consider questionnaires from candidates certified by the Department of Elections * Responses will be shared with our board, membership and the general public on sfbike.org/vote. Our Board of Directors will make an endorsement guided by your questionnaire responses along with input from our current dues-paying members.* Please submit your responses via MS Word file or in the body of an email, so we can easily re-publish your answers on the SF Bicycle Coalition website. Submit your responses to marc
@sfbike.org* Please do not surpass the word limits stated. Any words exceeding the word limit will not be considered or published. Any additional content will be truncated. * If you have questions, contact Marc Caswell, Program Manager at 415-431-2453 x302 or marc@
sfbike.org Please respond using no more than 75 words for each response; longer responses will be truncated. For internal staff-use only:Campaign Telephone: Campaign Fax: Candidate Personal Email:Contact name for further clarification/questions about this document: Contact phone number & email: For publishing to sfbike.org/vote:CandidateÕs Name: Website: [Please include a photo of the candidate for us to use on our website] 1. How often do you ride a bicycle in San Francisco (for any purpose), and for what kinds of trips? Answer: I used to ride about once a week, but have not done so, lately. First, two years ago my bike was stolen. Second, I developed a case of “vein stasis” and when this clears I will start riding, again. 2. The City has established a goal that 20% of trips in San Francisco be made by bicycle by 2020. Do you endorse this goal? Answer: Yes, I do endorse it. What will you do as Mayor to realize this goal, providing a better San Francisco biking experience for locals and visitors? Answer: We will need more streets with just walkways, and no cars. And, we will need stuff to boost the merchants that have stores in these areas, if they lose business due to the initial lack of automobiles. Outside of this, bicycle traffic can grow. 3. It has been repeatedly shown that the most effective way to boost the number of people bicycling in San Francisco and improve the bicycling experience is to designate dedicated space for bicycling through physically separated bikeways and traffic-calmed streets. Answer: Here, we have to talk about training and more training. There is no free ride. Bicycling in a city rolling with automobiles is a dangerous affair. Once the rider understands this, learns to observe what he or she is doing, while riding at all times, learning like a boxer to be on he defensive…ridership without hazards will come. The SF Bicycle Coalition has set out its Connecting the City initiative (www.connectingthecity.org), an ambitious and achievable vision of crosstown bikeways that are comfortable and inviting for people of all ages and abilities, connecting neighborhoods and helping locals and visitors to shop, work, and play more often by bike. Reconfiguring our streets to include crosstown bikeways and other "low stress" bike routes, thereby improving the safety and quality of life for hundreds of thousands of San Franciscans who currently ride a bike, will draw concern from some neighbors unused to this next-generation infrastructure and the reprogramming of some on-street car parking and traffic lanes (though the City is often able to add parking close to project areas to balance the change). Understanding this, will you commit to bringing a mayoral mandate and urgency to completing 25 miles of continuous crosstown bikeways within four years, directing City staff to complete them on streets such as Oak, Fell, Polk and Valencia Streets, San Jose Avenue and the Embarcadero? Answer: All of this is an ambitious plan, but safety is paramount. And, this City is a long shot from a safe bicycle route. Mandatory bicyle training would help us get there. 4. Market Street, in addition to many other attributes, is centrally important for Muni and bicycle travel, with a quarter of a million daily transit vehicle boardings on or under it each weekday, and more daily bike trips than almost any other street in the United States. The City and community partners have commenced a series of trials to test ideas for improving Market Street, for the sake of transportation improvements as well as public realm and economic enhancements. Do you support continued and expanded trials to speed up Muni and create safer conditions for walking and biking, such as additional required turns to reduce traffic congestion on the street, "through streets" (e.g. Montgomery Street) which would permit private vehicles to cross but not turn onto Market Street (commercial, taxi and paratransit vehicles would be exempt, as they are now), extending the separated green bikeway further eastward, and other such ideas? Answer: I am for adding more green zones, as long as more training for bike riders takes place. I cannot tell you how many times I have almost run over a bike rider, because the rider expected me to see him, when he or she had no lights, helmet, blah, blah, blah. 5. Market Street is scheduled for full repaving in 2015. The City has begun a public process to plan for and deliver a Better Market Street when the repaving work takes place. Do you support a continuous, physically separated green bikeway the full length of Market Street (maintaining/enhancing Muni and the pedestrian realm)? Answer: At the moment, yes. 6. Sunday Streets is a popular program, now in its fourth year, which the SF Bicycle Coalition is proud to have helped launch. Sunday Streets creates miles of temporary car-free streets for people to get physically active in diverse SF neighborhoods, on bicycles, on foot, on skates, in wheelchairs, with dogs, with hula hoops, etc. Will you work to continue and grow Sunday Streets by integrating it into the City budget to ensure steady funding? Answer: I have not seen what the funding is for Sunday streets. 7. Will you support the launch of a trial of an every-week Sunday Streets route between April and October beginning in 2012, and a second trial in 2013, with a citywide network of Sunday Streets by 2017? Answer: I would have to know more, but the plan looks admirable. 8. San Francisco has begun a Safe Routes to School program, encouraging students and their families to walk and bike to school, through a well-developed program of education and collaboration with schools and parents, led by the SF Department of Public Health and carried out by the SF Bicycle Coalition and other public agencies and community groups. Though funding has been limited, in its two years of existence the program has taught bicycle and pedestrian safety to over 2,500 children in classrooms across the city. Will you commit to supporting a more robust Safe Routes to School program by expanding it to all schools in the city? Answer: All schools would have to be checked. 9. Thanks to advocacy from the SF Bicycle CoalitionÕs Great Streets Project and leadership by the SF Planning Department, the city has seen a wave of popular public realm enhancements over the past few years, from "Pavement to Parks" plazas to sidewalk-extending "parklets" to on-street bicycle parking "corrals" (installing bike parking racks along curb space often used for car parking). These projects are partnerships between local groups, including business groups, and the City. Do you support continuing and growing the Pavement to Parks program with three new major projects a year beginning in 2012? Answer: I accept the program on it merits, but would have to see more. 10. Do you support the ability of businesses to continue to apply for and install parklets and bike parking corrals near their businesses? Answer: Yes, if they do not obstruct pedestrian traffic. 11. Do you support the installation of at least 25 bike parking corrals a year, according to local demand? Answer: The number of corrals, I am not sure. 12. A group of city agencies has come together to create an Innovations Working Group, with the goal of testing new ways to more easily and inexpensively improve streets. They have begun looking at less-expensive versions of curb extensions and would like to develop and test similarly "lightweight" new traffic calming techniques, such as wider sidewalks and shared streets (on which the street level is flush with the sidewalks and cars are permitted to travel but at a pedestrian pace). Do you support testing such new and innovative streetscape improvement measures to help the City to more easily partner with local groups to improve the safety and appeal of streets? Answer: Having to many plans is not a great idea. 13. Pavement quality is an essential issue for safe comfortable bicycling in San Francisco ÐÊpotholes can make biking not merely uncomfortable but often hazardous. With the city's streets in such a desperately poor state of repair, more funding is needed to keep our streets in a stable condition and begin to reverse the downward trend. At the same time we need to accelerate major streetscape enhancements for biking, walking, and transit on streets like Masonic Avenue, Second Street, and of course Market Street. Do you support Proposition B, the Road Repaving and Street Safety Bond measure, on the November ballot? Answer: No. 14. Do you support bringing more funding to bikeway construction and maintenance by prioritizing at least 50% of the streets in the repaving schedule to be streets that are designated bike routes? Answer: Yes 15. What are your ideas for ongoing funding sources and mechanisms for pavement maintenance and repair? Answer: I do not know what funding sources and mechanisms entail here. 16. Funding for bikeways and other bicycle improvements and programs in San Francisco is presently made up from an array of local, regional, and federal grants, with a tiny fraction coming from the SFMTA's operating budget. Given the City's policy commitments to increasing everyday bicycle transportation, and the already significant number of trips taking place by bike (6% by SFMTA's estimate in 2009), would you support an increase for bicycle project and program funding from SFMTA's budget? 17. What are your ideas for other funding sources for bicycle projects and programs in San Francisco? Answer: Possibly tax rebates. 18. Will you include funding for San Francisco bicycle projects and programs in prospective funding requests to regional, state and federal entities as part of the City’s transportation funding agenda? Answer: Yes, based on percentage 19. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) was designed to help citizens and policy makers understand the environmental impact of proposed projects by requiring structured analysis for such projects before permitting them to go forward. Under the current practice of CEQA by the SF Planning Department, projects that reduce traffic speeds and make streets safer for walking, biking and transit (e.g. transit lanes, bike lanes, wider sidewalks) are often required to complete lengthy and expensive analyses, increasing the cost of such proposals and delaying their implementation, even though these projects have a clear benefit to the environment. Would you support changes at the local level to evaluate transportation impacts differently, exempting projects which prioritize sustainable transportation modes and allowing them to come forward faster and more affordably? 20. Will you direct the SF Police Department to more energetically cite aggressive/dangerous driving and speeding within the city, placing traffic safety as a high priority within the Department, and supporting prioritized measured enforcement to protect people biking and walking? Answer: First, the SFPD is already under pressure from excessive salaries and pensions. Bike traffic safety will never be a high priority because the SFPD has their hands full with many real crimes. 21. The AmericaÕs Cup series of regattas will be bringing hundreds of thousands of visitors and locals to San Francisco's waterfront during the summers of 2012 and 2013. Due to the large numbers of people attending, excellent bicycling conditions to and through the event area will be essential for the events' success as a transportation practicality. Will you work to ensure that bicycle access and bicycle parking are given high priority in America's Cup planning and investment? Answer: I am a veteran of the United State Navy. I think boats and bikes do mix well. 22. Will you support permanent post-America's Cup legacy improvements for key bicycle routes such as the Embarcadero and Polk Street, at a high level of comfort and continuity for bicycle riders as envisioned in Connecting the City (www.connectingthecity.org)? Answer: I support riders in this city. 23. The SFMTA Board of Directors oversees Muni, taxicabs, bicycle and pedestrian programs, parking policy and enforcement, and traffic enforcement, as well as having authority over all traffic changes to the city's streets, from stop signs to speed limits to bike lanes. Clearly the SFMTA Board of Directors is critically central to providing safe, sustainable mobility and access for all. The entire SFMTA Board is appointed by the Mayor. What are your priorities for SFMTA Board appointments and what do you want to accomplish with the Board? Answer: If I am elected to the Mayor’s Office, I am going to dissolve the present MTA Board, with the exception of the new CEO. The present Board has done a terrible job overseeing the MTA, the taxis, jitneys, bikes, motorbikes, motorcycles, trucks, buses, parking spaces, yellow and white zones, walk ways and other city transit issues, because they have been too involved with giving upper management a “Horse and Pony Show” while they were sucking up fantastic paychecks for very simple jobs. Bicyclists will be on this new Commission. They will be on the old MTA Commission as well. The present MTA Board has too many sycophants and attorneys and not enough accountants and City laymen, bicycle riders and real bus users. The MTA Board needs taxi drivers that have no pensions, medical and dental plans, day offs with pay, and more real City residents that actually live and work here. They need to know that there are real costs involved in everything Muni does, and these costs will affect their income, if they go into orbit. As mayor, I will split the MTA in half and create a new Taxi, Limousine, Jitney, Shuttle, Motorcycle and Bicycle Commission, with 12 Commissioners. It will have only taxi, limousine, jitney, shuttle and bicycle and motorcycle riders, (real ones) for the board. And, this board will have these people as accountants, doctors, lawyers and laymen, administrators and women from the City voting roles. All the phony appointments will be history.
I have been a speaker before the MTA since 2006, and they know my views well. We need bicyclists as MTA Commissioners so that he whole City can get involved in bicycle training, at either high school or City College of San Francisco. One Commissioner on the Board is Tom Knowlton from San Mateo County, who claims: I ride the Muni regularly.” But, in reality, he drives in from San Mateo, parks in the City Hall garage, then drives back. He also claimed, “Nate Ford’s personal problems of embezzlement and other issues would not follow him here. Before Ford was fired, yes fired, Ford awarded one of his Atlanta friends, a City garage contract, and this garage contract dude left shoeboxes full of cash in Ford’s office.
Emil Lawrence MBA
Lawrence2011Campaign
PO 281287
San Francisco, CA 94128
CA Department of Real Estate
Agent License – 0138873
CA/Fed Tax Preparation,
Fed-P/TIN - PO1364976
SF Taxi Driver, Badge #47921
SF Ramp Taxi Medallion 9015
SF Wheelchair Access Taxi)
LETTER TO INTERIM MAYOR FOR DISMISSLE OF THREE MTA COMMISSIONERS
April 25, 2011
Interim Mayor Ed Lee
Members of the Board
City hall, Room 400
One Carlton Goodlett
San Francisco, CA
Mayor Lee:
SUBJECT: Dismissal of the Police, SFMTA, & Civil Service Boards or Commissions
Mr. Mayor, I am directing this letter to your attention. I am doing so not just due to the pension reform that this City and County need, but due to the reform of up to 1/3 of the bureaucracy of here, too. This City is top heavy with worthless Commissions, boards which do not do what they were intended to do. I have three cases in point:
Police Commission: Our new District Attorney, a man that is masquerading as a Latino DA, when he left the post of Chief of Police, felt no need to let them know of his decision. At present, this Commission has attempted to manipulate the Public Speaking format during hearing times, by cancelling hearings and pushing the public times to the end of the session. The Commission has never adequately addressed runaway police pay, their main job. This is what the MTA accomplished under Ford.
SF Metropolitan Transportation Agency (SFMTA): At present, this bureaucracy is totally out of control. Not only does the MTA have a deficit which is most probably over 200 million dollars a year (forget the lies they are publishing) their Chief Nate Ford is so incompetent, for the past year, the board that hired him has been trying to get him to apply for jobs which will let him leave, quietly. This is one big joke at the agency. Nate Ford took Atlanta’s MARTI into the biggest bankruptcy in their history, and he is doing the same here. His background in finance is zero, yes 0. Mercer College gives academic credit for bus driving. In actuality, Ford is a just bus driver from New York City. He was picked in Atlanta, according to one newspaper there, “He was picked because they no longer wanted a white guy to do the job.” In Atlanta, he was accused of embezzlement, ($175,000) and sexual harassment (settlement approx 1.1 million) while on the job. Atlanta paid $190,000 a year, for his incredible incompetence. We pay him $310,000 a year here. And, fire Ms Johnson, his aid. For special services to him, Nate Ford has pushed her pay up and above anything she deserves. More on Ms. Roberta Johnson and this scandal, later.
Civil Service Commission:
Emil Lawrence MBA
660 Westfield Road
San Francisco, CA 94128
1-415-513-7705 PCS
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ON OUTRAGEOUS TAXI DRIVER FEES
May 6, 2011
Interim Mayor Ed Lee
Members of the Board
City hall, Room 400
One Carlton Goodlett
San Francisco, CA
Mayor Lee:
SUBJECT: Additional Outrageous Fees for San Francisco taxi drivers & firms
This letter is being sent directly to you for a purpose. The MTA, with a deficit which is really over 200 million dollars a year and growing, (without your off balance sheet accounting) due to the incompetence of their Chief, Debra Johnson, the man’s special services partner, the MTA Commission and administrators, has found a new gold and silver mine in the ranks of this City’s taxi industry and particularly the taxi drivers. Since the MTA took over the SF Tax Commission, all taxi fees have been heading to the stars. And, their new taxi group agenda keeps adding new fees. The MTA and the new taxi authority no longer serve the public; they just sit back and collect fat paychecks and benefits.” Our taxi industry fees are going straight up with their paychecks.
On May 3rd, 2011, your local taxi drivers, who are now being ripped off, raped, squeezed, pruned, stapled, and hit by this City for more and more money, did not circle City Hall for amusement, they are just fed up with business as usual. In the last 15 years, between Willie Lewis Brown and Gavin Getty Newsom, taxi driver income has been stretched to its limits. After 15 years of these dudes helping drivers, many taxi drivers still live in their cars, yes in their vehicles while serving the public, in this tourist town, paying fantastic taxi fees and citations to support your salaries and pensions. Do not take my word for it, read the enclosed three page flyer. Then wonder why drivers sill use General Hospital, with not much in medical insurance or a pension plan or a medical & dental plan, when you and the Board have it? Also, drivers are being forced to buy more and more expensive equipment, our costs are becoming catastrophic.
Emil Lawrence MBA
CA/Fed Tax preparer,
Tax Analyst, Strategist
(Fed-PTIN # PO1364976)
660 Westfield Road
Units 281-287
San Francisco, CA 94128
1-415-7705 PCS
Taxi Driver, Badge #47921
Taxi Medallion Owner 9015
Wheelchair Access Ramp Taxi
With Royal Taxi Company
cc: Taxi Drivers and firms
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